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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback: September 2011
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback. Current Events and the Crisis Response They Need. Thursday, September 29, 2011. Did the Onion Cross the Line? If you're not familiar, is a "news" outlet that puts out a printed newspaper, a TV show and a website absolutely chock full of fake news. Typical headlines are things like, "Historians Politely Remind Nation To Check What's Happened In Past Before Making Any Big Decisions" and "Syracuse Leaves Big East For Woman Named 'Misti'." The Onion. Incident. The Onion.
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback: February 2012
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback. Current Events and the Crisis Response They Need. Tuesday, February 28, 2012. School Shootings in a Cell Phone Era. Yesterday morning, a teenager walked into the cafeteria at Chardon High School in Chardon, Ohio and opened fire. Apparently targeting a particular group of students. One died immediately, another at the hospital, and several others were seriously wounded. So, here's what's bugging me. If a school is in lockdown - if they are trained. This may seem counteri...
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback: December 2011
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback. Current Events and the Crisis Response They Need. Friday, December 23, 2011. Suicide Among Our Finest. This man was well known in the law enforcement community. In addition to the Eastern police force, he had been an officer in Ann Arbor for many years and quite recently did a brief stint at University of Michigan as their police chief. It's likely that most if not all of the responders to this scene knew him personally. My heart goes out to them. Found that while the s...
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback: August 2011
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback. Current Events and the Crisis Response They Need. Wednesday, August 31, 2011. All Hazard Preparedness (for Some, Anyway). Rikers Island circled in blue on evacuation map from NY Times. As Hurricane Irene churned its way up the East Coast last week, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg ordered the evacuation of coastal areas of the city. 300,000 people were ordered out of their homes (although a fair number didn't leave). For those of you who don't watch Law and Order.
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback: Etan Patz and Why Child Abductions Make the News
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback. Current Events and the Crisis Response They Need. Tuesday, April 24, 2012. Etan Patz and Why Child Abductions Make the News. Frequent quarterbacker Alan (who blogs over at Poor Mojo. Shared a new Time. The fact is your child is far more likely to die young in a motor vehicle accident than to be kidnapped by a stranger and murdered. Tens of thousands of times more likely. But car accidents are quotidian and kidnappings are good copy and so we live in terror. Subscribe to...
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback: January 2012
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback. Current Events and the Crisis Response They Need. Monday, January 30, 2012. U of M Child Porn Case: A Study in Crisis Communication. In a story that made everyone's blood run cold, a resident physician specializing in pediatrics at the University of Michigan was arrested in December. This under Michigan law. We followed procedures. We are now reviewing our procedures to see if they need to be revised." All of that would be true, and it would only serve to ma...But Michi...
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback: Why the Inuksuk?
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback. Current Events and the Crisis Response They Need. Friday, April 9, 2010. Inuksuit are left behind by those traveling before you, to show you the way. The people who build them are not necessarily any smarter or better than those who follow, they simply are sharing their experience so others can make use of it and not have to do all the discovery themselves. In that sense, I've long thought that the Inuksuk was the perfect symbol of early crisis response. Contents of thi...
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback: Why Blame Is a Bad Idea: Death at Cummings Middle School
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback. Current Events and the Crisis Response They Need. Wednesday, January 4, 2012. Why Blame Is a Bad Idea: Death at Cummings Middle School. Everything about this story is wrong. Based on as yet very sketchy reports, here's what we know:. Given that , perhaps it's not surprising that everything about the press coverage is wrong, too. The headlines read things like, " Brownsville police kill teen at middle school. Whose fault is this? The school for calling the police? Off to...
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback: April 2012
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback. Current Events and the Crisis Response They Need. Wednesday, April 25, 2012. Is the Norway Shooter Sane . . . and Does it Matter? For the last six days, the man responsible for the bombing and mass shooting that killed 77 people in Norway last July has been testifying at his trial. On an intuitive level, most of us have a sense that you can't be all there and do what this man did. You'd have to be "sick" or "crazy." But those aren't medical terms either. And...Etan Patz...
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback: U of M Child Porn Case: A Study in Crisis Communication
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Monday Morning Crisis Quarterback. Current Events and the Crisis Response They Need. Monday, January 30, 2012. U of M Child Porn Case: A Study in Crisis Communication. In a story that made everyone's blood run cold, a resident physician specializing in pediatrics at the University of Michigan was arrested in December. This under Michigan law. We followed procedures. We are now reviewing our procedures to see if they need to be revised." All of that would be true, and it would only serve to ma...But Michi...